Educational RF/Microwave Lab
MISES ECE Dept.
Phone:
Lab: (614) 292-3489
Contact: Roblin (614) 292-0998
Department of Electrical Engineering

RF/Microwave Faculty
(Faculty members teaching microwave/RF courses)

RF/Microwave Curriculum
Students interested in microwave/RF circuit design for applications such as wireless communication have access to the following microwave courses and design laboratories in the electromagnetics, electronics and solid-state areas:

EE620, RF Integrated Circuits

Offered: Spring quarter This course provides an introduction to the design of analog radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (RFICs). Topics include transceiver architectures, short channel transistor models, passive component models, MOS and Bipolar LNAs, Mixers, VCOs, frequency synthesizers, PLLs and baseband circuits.

EE710, Microwave Circuits

Offered: Fall quarter Microwave circuit theory is the extension of circuit theory to high-frequencies where distributed effects cannot be neglected. In EE710 distributed circuit theory is applied to the design of both narrow and broad band couplers, filters, transformers, power dividers, attenuators and circulator. EE 710 includes a 1 credit laboratory where the students learn to perform microwave measurement (S-parameters) using modern Network Analysers and pursue a project in which they design (with the help of the ADS CAD tool ADS), fabricate and test a microwave circuit of their choice.

EE723, Microwave Transistor Amplifiers and Oscillators

Offered: Winter quarter In this design oriented course, distributed circuit theory is applied to the design of microwave amplifiers and oscillators. Topic covered includes the design principles of low-noise, power and broad-band amplifiers and the Kurokawa non-linear theory for oscillator design. EE723 includes a 1 credit laboratory where the students learn to perform microwave measurement (S-parameters, 1 dB compression gain and Noise Figure) using modern Network Analysers and Noise Figure meter and pursue a project in which they design (with the help of the CAD tool ADS), fabricate and test a microwave amplifier or oscillator.

EE582/682R, Wireless Technology Design Course

Offered: Spring quarter (Perequisite: EE582R) A course where a team of senior undergraduate students design RF/microwave system using CAD tools to realize a wireless communication system. ( ADS ) Recent design projects involved the students in the design a 2.5 GHz ISM wireless system VCR-TV link and a doppler radar. The microwave transmitter and receivers systems integrate various components such patch-antenna array, low noise amplifiers, voltage control oscillator, PLL, mixer, and microprocessors. Graduate students interested in this design course for graduate credits must contact Prof. Roblin to sign up for a separate individual and group study course (Not Currently Scheduled).

EE832, High Speed Semiconductor Devices

Offered: Even Spring quarter This course covers the principles underlying the operation and application of microwave semiconductor devices such as the resonant tunneling diode, Gunn diodes, HBT and MODFETs/MOSFETs. Topics covered includes the theory of heterostructure devices, electron transport in high fields, Gunn effect, resonant tunneling and superlattices, modulation doped FET devices, short channel effects, FET wave-equation and small and large signal models for microwave circuit simulations.

Educational Microwave Lab Facilities

Educational Microwave Laboratory
The High Frequency Instructional Laboratory was developed with the support of Hewlett Packard and the National Science Foundation. One of the goals of this laboratory is to expose the solid state, electromagnetics and communication under-graduate and graduate students to the design of microwave circuits and the high-frequency measurement of semiconductor devices. This educational laboratory is used in three senior elective courses/laboratories (EE710 and EE723 and EE682R) as well as in graduate student research activities.

Educational Laboratory Equipment

Microwave Software Available

Advanced Design System (ADS 2002)
A schematic capture simulator for the simulation of complete communication system including, microwave network, antenna and link, and signal processing. Harmonic-balance, transient and envelope microwave-simulator which permits the users to verify and optimize their design as well as generate the layout for board or chip fabrication.
SystemView from Elanix
A schematic capture system simulator with powerful RF and communication libraries for the design of digital communication radio systems.
Cadence
A complete microchip EDA system for the design, simulation, physical layout and verification of mixed-signal (analog/digital) integrated circuit and RFIC.

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